Three Cops Slain In Baton Rouge

Just got out of church and learned that three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers where shot dead in BR today. Two are wounded and hospitalized. One other was shot, but apparently seems not to have been hospitalized and was sent to a different hospital; information sketchy now. One suspect dead, two at large, reports say. The very latest is cops are said to be in a standoff with one suspect. Not sure yet what happened. An ambush? Hard to say. One witness I’m listening to now on WAFB, the CBS station in Baton Rouge, said suspects were shooting with semiautomatic weapons before police arrived. He said he saw one man dead and a man with a gun running towards him — this, 45 seconds before police arrived on the scene. If so, that would indicate that this might not be a Dallas-style premeditated cop killing.

Community leaders calling for no Alton Sterling protests in the city today.

No news yet as to the race of the suspects or victims.

The city is extremely on edge now. It’s hard to imagine what will happen next. Actually it’s all too easy to imagine it. God help us. I’ll update this post as we know more.

UPDATE.2: Three police officers are dead in Baton Rouge, and the public does not yet know who did the shootings or why, but this scumbag, the LGBT editor at Think Progress and, in his own words, “proud SJW,” is already busy blaming law enforcement:

Given how police haven’t been held accountable for murdering black people, it’s no surprise some are taking justice into their own hands.

I think something that everyone is forgetting that blm condemns these attacks and they protest but the organizers want peaceful resolutions and the bad cops held accountable. It is incredibly well documented that the police forces across America have an racist tinge in searching. Even Neil degrasse Tyson got stopped repeatedly bringing physics books into a physics building. But the police officers as a whole have a blue wall of silence against this issue. Does no one remember when half the NYC cops turned their backs on the mayor after he talked about warning his half black son to be careful of them.
Dreher talks about how the Christians in America have their heads on the sand about the future of Christianity. Cops have their backs to blacks and refuse to confront this issue. And they won’t have to as long as people like those in the comments keep calling for the end of the “terrorist organization like blm.”.

JonF, yeah, BLM had nothing to do with these assassinations in the same way that Islam had nothing to do with Omar Mateen and the Nice truck driver. You really believe that, don’t you?

The truth is that Obama/Lynch have put the full weight of their authority behind and given unqualified backing to BLM’s anti-police narratives. In one of the most obscene speeches ever given by a US president, Obama even used the memorial for the white Dallas officers to call for gun control and the lecture the county on racism. Obama is obsessed with the idea white are out to get the blacks. In that quote posted by Anne up thread, notice how Obama spends 4 out of the 12 words in the sentence trying to protect BLM. One third of the sentence.

Sorry, but the Baton Rouge shooter’s Twitter was filled with nothing but BLM propaganda from July 7th until today. Please check it out when you can.

I will close out this sad day by saying I stand by my hot take from this morning. BLM and their apologists own this.

Stephen Hall,
Despite impressions to the contrary being a policeman is far from the most dangerous work in our country. And the job comes with a decent salary, good benefits (including a pension) and real job security. Nor does it require an extensive education leaving one in $$$ of debt. People will still be clamoring to do it.

I believe you owe Elrond an apology. The head of the Cleveland police union agrees with Elrond. FWIW, so do many of the cops I know. They would add the blood of the two cops slain in NYC last year and the five cops in Dallas. And they include Eric Holder on the list of the culpable.

Every two years the White House and it’s media allies try to angry up the black vote to increase turnout. This year the DOJ has scheduled the federal trial to start the day before Election Day on November 8, 2016. This will ensure weeks of media coverage of the Charleston massacre just before Election Day. The state trial is scheduled to start in January 2017. The reason it is scheduled for 2017 is that prosecutors and judges do not like to have major trials during the holidays. It negatively affects jurors and the jury pool. Another example would be the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin case. The only reason this became a national news story and Obama got involved was because the media believed Zimmerman was a white guy. They even invented a new racial category of “white Hispanic” to describe him when it became clear that Zimmerman didn’t look like a white guy.

If you have the humility and intellectual integrity to step outside your comfort zone, you might check out Steve Sailer on this issue. He documents it pretty well.

Keep in mind that the Goon Brains would actually have shot those guys based on the slightest move.

The cop killings are exercises in episodic psychopathy. Goon Brain syndrome in cops is systemic. Killing cops is morally atrocious but it doesn’t attenuate the now normative abuse of constitutional rights and civil liberties by cops.

@ Siarlys: long before we were married, my wife dated a young man who desperately wanted to be a cop. My wife learned – anecdotally, to be sure – that there are two kinds of folks who want to be cops: first is the person who genuinely wants to protect and serve, and second is the guy (usually) who wants to have the authority to beat others down. Sometimes it’s a mix.

But we need better psychological profiles to avoid recruiting the kind of cops you mentioned. They should be summarily fired.

The Obama/Holder regime waged war against a small St. Louis suburb for nearly a year. Finding their ‘casus belli’ was about as legitimate as Dubya’s WMD, they kept the war up, moving the goalposts and criticizing a city for having the temerity of enforcing its quality of life laws.

Holder’s audience, the key demographic in the Democratic coalition and Holder/Obama’s own power base, is seven (7) seven times more likely to kill than white Americans. The average IQ of its members is something around 90. Riling up that audience with bogus tales that the cops are out to get them has had predictable consequences.

You may or may not agree with Coates’ argument, or like the way he links the shootings with black Americans’ experiences with the police. But I can’t see how you can fairly read what he said as “lack of condemnation”.

No, absolutely not. You are giving him far too much credit, as nearly every liberal commentator does. Here is the closing paragraph of that article:

There is no shortcut out. Sanctimonious cries of nonviolence will not help. “Retraining” can only do so much. Until we move to the broader question of policy, we can expect to see Walter Scotts and Freddie Grays with some regularity. And the extent to which we are tolerant of the possibility of more Walter Scotts and Freddie Grays is the extent to which we are tolerant of the possibility of more Micah Xavier Johnsons.

His conclusion is basically: get on board with BLM or accept that black people will keep murdering cops. Saying it was “murder” and “atrocious” was basically phatic, he is going to make no effort to put this stuff beyond the pale of the movement at all. Anyone should be terrified that this is the leading light on race issues in America.

Seriously read that article without partisan bias (if that is even possible now), and ask yourself whether he is really trying to keep something like this from happening again or whether he is feeding the panic that caused the cop killing in the first place.

A condemnation would explicitly say that cop killing has no place in activism around police violence. Coates just used 5000 words to try and give it historical context.

“This year the DOJ has scheduled the federal trial to start the day before Election Day on November 8, 2016.”

Great point. These anti-cops nuts are being incited, recklessly. Obama, Soros etc know that cop killings incited by their overhyped narrative is likely because its happened before (2014 in NYC). They want blacks to vote their way and are riling up fear and anger to drive them to the polls. By their behavior (forget empty words) we know that some cop murders and riots are an acceptable price to pay for their success. Its uncomfortable to think of the powerful treating us like chess pieces that can be sacrificed so they can win the game but that is what is happening.

As a result of this cops will pull back from anything involving risk to them and neighborhoods and public spaces will become more dangerous to normal people. The result will be less order, more coffins, more unlivable hellhole streets and parks. This happened when liberals on the Warren Court decided public order was not necessary and will happen again.

Re: JonF, yeah, BLM had nothing to do with these assassinations in the same way that Islam had nothing to do with Omar Mateen and the Nice truck driver. You really believe that, don’t you?

I believe that these guys are basically psychopaths– in the Baton Rouge case Rod has a post up quoting the murderer’s diary, which is Exhibit A in that case. People like that will grab onto any rationalization for their vile actions so they can pretend to be going out in a blaze of glory and not a stench of infamy.

Once again, the blame belongs to the murderers alone– as far as we know there were no accomplices as that term is generally understood, both inside and outside court rooms. Trying to blame Obama is every bit as idiotic and morally obtuse as blaming Newt Gingrich and the Republicans back in 1995 for Tim McVeigh’s atrocity.

If I must owe an apology to Elrond or anyone else, so too does he and others owe an equal apology to every BLM supporter who has personally experienced police brutality, wrongful arrest and racial profiling.

Put that in your guilt-by-association pipe and smoke it.

I will offer zero respect to any use of guilt by association. It is the hot button to end all hot buttons for me, used against me on three different levels all of my life. I will not offer a rebuttal to it, because it is the precise intention behind the classic cliche question “have you stopped beating your wife yet?”

Think about that, think about the propaganda behind using scapegoats to promote political agendas, and think about this: I don’t care what your intentions are, guilt by association is immoral, and it promotes acts of evil.

Yes, I will apply exactly that to anyone, no matter what the issue is or where they stand on it. And I will point out to every Christian asserting guilt by association that your time is coming soon, at the hands of the social justice warriors you despise and the LGBT agenda supporters you brand as evil, who want to bankrupt your business or deny you employment or housing because they brand you bigots. You want my respect, stop using their tactics.

“yeah, BLM had nothing to do with these assassinations in the same way that Islam had nothing to do with Omar Mateen and the Nice truck driver.”
It did, in exactly the same way that anti-abortion ideology had something to do with Robert Lewis Dear: someone was inspired by an ideology to kill people. I don’t remember anyone on the Christian right apologizing for their polemics against Planned Parenthood after the Colorado shooting (“No more baby parts!” was his rallying cry) and they SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. I can’t think of an ideology which hasn’t inspired murder, can you?

“As a result of this cops will pull back from anything involving risk to them and neighborhoods and public spaces will become more dangerous to normal people.”
No, they will militarize more, and use force less hesitantly. The predictable consequence of terrorism is more state violence, not less.

Reinhold :I can’t think of an ideology which hasn’t inspired murder, can you?”
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I’d have to think about it awhile but I know abolition of slavery sure inspired John Brown & his sons to murder. I didn’t realize till watching a program on TV that some abolitionists were supplying him with weapons.

I’d have to think about it awhile but I know abolition of slavery sure inspired John Brown & his sons to murder. I didn’t realize till watching a program on TV that some abolitionists were supplying him with weapons.